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The program will require less funding after city workers cleared two large encampments, one along Coyote Creek and another in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052645/san-jose-begins-clearing-columbus-park-the-citys-biggest-homeless-encampment\">Columbus Park\u003c/a>, over the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders remain optimistic that ongoing negotiations with Santa Clara County will result in the county picking up some of the cost of the city’s shelter system, easing the future hit on the general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240409-SJEncampmentBan-064-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240409-SJEncampmentBan-064-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240409-SJEncampmentBan-064-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240409-SJEncampmentBan-064-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240409-SJEncampmentBan-064-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240409-SJEncampmentBan-064-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240409-SJEncampmentBan-064-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents sit along Coyote Creek in Roosevelt Park in San José on April 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the gloomy fiscal outlook, the council agreed to put $1 million toward nonprofits that provide immigrant defense and legal services for residents facing deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we talk about immigration services, we’re talking about keeping families together, helping people navigate complex legal systems and making sure our neighbors can live with dignity and without fear,” Councilmember Peter Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Monday public comment session on the budget plan, advocates pointed to increased fears in response to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12083600/santa-clara-county-leaders-say-theyll-fight-planned-ice-facility-in-gilroy\">planned\u003c/a> U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Gilroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families are already living in fear and uncertainty, workers are already facing risks, children are already worried about the possibility of being separated from their loved ones,” said Joanna Becerra, with the nonprofit Amigos de Guadalupe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best way to respond to an emergency is to ensure our community is ready before it happens,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the budget shortfall is closed through the use of the city’s Budget Stabilization Reserve, drawing the rainy day fund down from $87.5 million to just $25 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stagnant local economy and sluggish real estate sales, along with higher-than-expected retirement costs, have left San José with an ongoing shortfall projected at $26.8 million for 2027-28 and $11.8 million in 2028-29. City budget analysts warned that those deficits could grow if new \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/06/rob-bonta-blackjack-regulations-gambling/\">state regulations\u003c/a> on cardrooms result in lower tax revenue from Bay 101 Casino and Casino Matrix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the city is expected to bring in $6.8 million in the upcoming fiscal year from Measure A, which is winning approval from roughly two-thirds of San José voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A contingency budget plan released by the city manager that did not include that additional revenue called for cuts to Sunday library hours and a downtown police foot patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be having a very, very different discussion in trying to do a greater cut on many of our services today” if Measure A had failed, Councilmember Rosemary Kamei said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12085548 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/06/GettyImages-77152290-e1560402492305.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of progressive supervisors had advocated for city staffers to explore changing San José’s business tax to bring in more revenue, but the idea was not included in the final budget plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The tax is currently assessed based on employee headcount. A potential shift to a gross receipts tax could raise revenue without penalizing employment — but also create new challenges for collection and administration, a city report found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now is not the time to explore an increase to the business tax,” Vice Mayor Pam Foley said. “I am concerned about the impacts on San José’s small businesses as well as our ability to attract large businesses to relocate to San José.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Council members acknowledged that difficult budget conversations would likely carry into next year. But they agreed to tap reserves and shift existing funds in order to avoid deeper cuts initially proposed by the city manager — such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12083535/san-jose-budget-cuts-could-doom-library-history-and-culture-space\">limiting public access to the California Room\u003c/a>, a wing of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library dedicated to local history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ralph Pearce, a part-time clerk in the California Room, said the collection provides value to both advanced researchers and visiting schoolchildren.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not just about looking back,” he said during Monday’s public comment. “We’re about helping the city of San José move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, the budget for the 2026-27 fiscal year cuts a net 19 positions throughout the city workforce, while 66 positions funded through one-time dollars will not be extended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since Mahan took office in 2023, the city has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072666/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-wants-to-be-governor-heres-a-look-into-his-signature-homelessness-program\">built out\u003c/a> a system of tiny homes with more than 2,000 beds for people experiencing homelessness, helping to bring unsheltered homelessness down 10% from 2023 to 2025. But the amount of money needed to operate the shelter system has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072999/tiny-homes-big-ambitions-matt-mahans-run-for-governor-spotlights-his-shelter-strategy\">outstripped\u003c/a> dedicated homeless funding and requires an ongoing infusion of general fund dollars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget approved by the council will close a 56-tent sanctioned encampment on Taylor Street, saving $1.2 million in the upcoming fiscal year. It will also reduce funding for BeautifySJ, the city’s blight reduction program, by $4.2 million. The program will require less funding after city workers cleared two large encampments, one along Coyote Creek and another in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052645/san-jose-begins-clearing-columbus-park-the-citys-biggest-homeless-encampment\">Columbus Park\u003c/a>, over the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders remain optimistic that ongoing negotiations with Santa Clara County will result in the county picking up some of the cost of the city’s shelter system, easing the future hit on the general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240409-SJEncampmentBan-064-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240409-SJEncampmentBan-064-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240409-SJEncampmentBan-064-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240409-SJEncampmentBan-064-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240409-SJEncampmentBan-064-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240409-SJEncampmentBan-064-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240409-SJEncampmentBan-064-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents sit along Coyote Creek in Roosevelt Park in San José on April 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Despite the gloomy fiscal outlook, the council agreed to put $1 million toward nonprofits that provide immigrant defense and legal services for residents facing deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we talk about immigration services, we’re talking about keeping families together, helping people navigate complex legal systems and making sure our neighbors can live with dignity and without fear,” Councilmember Peter Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Monday public comment session on the budget plan, advocates pointed to increased fears in response to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12083600/santa-clara-county-leaders-say-theyll-fight-planned-ice-facility-in-gilroy\">planned\u003c/a> U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Gilroy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Families are already living in fear and uncertainty, workers are already facing risks, children are already worried about the possibility of being separated from their loved ones,” said Joanna Becerra, with the nonprofit Amigos de Guadalupe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The best way to respond to an emergency is to ensure our community is ready before it happens,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the budget shortfall is closed through the use of the city’s Budget Stabilization Reserve, drawing the rainy day fund down from $87.5 million to just $25 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A stagnant local economy and sluggish real estate sales, along with higher-than-expected retirement costs, have left San José with an ongoing shortfall projected at $26.8 million for 2027-28 and $11.8 million in 2028-29. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-county\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a> is proposing cutting several hundred positions and shuttering health clinics to help close a $787 million budget deficit, as it confronts sea changes in funding from both the federal and state governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is our fourth year in a row of budget reductions and the magnitude of the gap that we had to close this year is one of the largest that the county has faced in decades,” County Executive James Williams said of the $14.7 billion budget proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He called it an “extraordinarily difficult budget to bring forward,” not just because of the challenges of bridging the gap, but because of residents’ increasing reliance on the county, complicated by the likelihood of further losses of federal revenue in coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And all of that in a context where there is so much need in the community and the context where we know that there are tremendous pressures on safety net services for the most vulnerable families,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s top brass recommended cutting 655 positions across its organization, with the brunt of that expected to be felt in the county’s large hospital system and its behavioral health departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county said about 265 of those positions are currently filled, or roughly 40%, but Williams said he is hoping to avoid any layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12080199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12080199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1679222216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1679222216.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1679222216-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1679222216-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Government Center in San Jose, California, on June 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(JHVEPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We will be attempting very vigorously to place all those individuals into other vacant positions across the county,” he said. What exactly happens to those employees would be based on what positions are offered to them, their labor contracts and their personal needs, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor Susan Ellenberg lauded those efforts given the county’s total workforce size of roughly 22,000 people, and hopes the county can support every worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s rather extraordinary… to be able to find enough places to make budget cuts, look for increased revenue and be able to consolidate and increase efficiencies with such a relatively small number of employees being impacted,” she said. “Of course, for any single employee, that makes all the difference in the world…but we have been very successful in leveraging positions that are either vacant now or we know have upcoming retirements or other planned separations from the county.”[aside postID=news_12074467 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/SFLicensePlateReader-1020x675.jpg']The county is facing significant cuts to federal Medicaid and food assistance funding stemming from President Donald Trump’s H.R. 1 bill, which is expected to amount to more than $1 billion in annual revenue losses for Santa Clara County in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has also this year shifted the requirements and funding model for mental health and behavioral health programs after the passage of Proposition 1 by voters in 2024, which Williams said “has really turned the fiscal world in behavioral health upside down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of federal and state funding challenges, the county, like many other organizations and households, has also seen rising costs for labor, goods, services and utilities, while property tax revenue has not kept pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest way the county is coping with the cuts is through the emergency injection of $337 million expected to be provided by a new sales tax approved by 57% of voters last year, called Measure A. The measure increases sales tax across the county by five-eighths of a cent for every one dollar spent, and is in place for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams and his staff recommended putting all of the Measure A money for the current budget year into Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, the county’s public hospital and clinic system, to help lessen the blow from Medicaid cuts enacted by Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara Valley Medical Center stands on 751 South Bascom Avenue in San José on Sept. 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>County supervisors also previously approved nearly $200 million in budget cuts in February during the mid-year budget review, including cutting roughly 365 positions that were largely vacant and focused on the county’s healthcare system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While planning for 655 cuts, the county is simultaneously considering adding 191 positions, especially in areas that are growing but aren’t reliant on federal funds, like parks and libraries, for a net cut of 464 positions, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two county-run behavioral health clinics are expected to be closed, but Williams said the services will be transitioned to other facilities or community organizations that provide services for the county already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellenberg said the idea of consolidating clinics on its face doesn’t worry her too much, so long as people who need those services aren’t challenged to find them elsewhere nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she added that in general, the on-the-ground impacts from broad budget recommendations to alter contracts and leases and reduce positions is where she will focus as supervisors go through budget workshops and reviews next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many aspects of it that are not yet clear to me, particularly around impact… I need to understand how that impacts particular populations, especially the very high-need and vulnerable residents that the county serves,” Ellenberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor Susan Ellenberg, speaks during an event celebrating the opening of Vermont House, a new residential treatment facility in San José for people leaving jail with mental health needs. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Williams said the county has been aiming to preserve or expand services for those in most need across the county. He pointed to plans for new “satellite clinics in high-need communities,” as well as the planned opening of the county’s behavioral health pavilion on the campus of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pavilion will include the first child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit in the South Bay, Williams said, and will be staffed by transferring positions from elsewhere in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re continuing to expand in critical areas and areas with significant community demand where there’s significant need. We haven’t taken our eye off the ball,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said the county has “moved mountains” to preserve critical services in the face of unprecedented cuts, and said voters have stepped up at an important time. But he called directly on the governor and legislature to help counties across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to see a forceful, clear and unequivocal response at the state level to what’s happening with H.R. 1,” he said. “There’s no way our county or any other can do this alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s Board of Supervisors will hold three consecutive budget workshops May 11-13, and will hold three more sessions to adopt a final budget in mid-June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is not the only government facing down budget deficits, as South Bay cities look for ways to close their gaps while maintaining critical services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240802-VTAFEDFUND-JG-1.jpg\" alt=\"The mayor of San Jose stands behind a podium. A poster breaking down the project budget is displayed next to the speaker.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240802-VTAFEDFUND-JG-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240802-VTAFEDFUND-JG-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240802-VTAFEDFUND-JG-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240802-VTAFEDFUND-JG-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240802-VTAFEDFUND-JG-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan speaks during a gathering in Santa Clara on Aug. 2, 2024, to announce a nearly $5.1 billion funding commitment from federal transit officials toward the VTA BART Silicon Valley Phase II extension project. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San José, whose Mayor Matt Mahan heavily touted his work to spend more of the city’s affordable housing funds on more than 1,000 new interim shelter spaces for people who are homeless last year, is now working to cut $50 million out of its budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s current proposal from City Manager Jennifer Maguire would cut support for interim housing operations by $1.25 million in the coming budget year and significantly reduce it by $14.2 million in the budget for 2027-2028, officials said this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said the coming years for Santa Clara County could be even more difficult, and he is concerned about changes to the “social compact” in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re one United States, and there are deep interrelationships between federal, state and local governments that all operate together to help take care of communities across the country,” Williams said. “We’re witnessing a complete reordering of that fabric, not just fiscally, but in terms of policy and the politics of this whole country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And all of that in a context where there is so much need in the community and the context where we know that there are tremendous pressures on safety net services for the most vulnerable families,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s top brass recommended cutting 655 positions across its organization, with the brunt of that expected to be felt in the county’s large hospital system and its behavioral health departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county said about 265 of those positions are currently filled, or roughly 40%, but Williams said he is hoping to avoid any layoffs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12080199\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1980px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12080199\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1679222216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1980\" height=\"1320\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1679222216.jpg 1980w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1679222216-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GettyImages-1679222216-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1980px) 100vw, 1980px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Government Center in San Jose, California, on June 10, 2023. \u003ccite>(JHVEPhoto via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We will be attempting very vigorously to place all those individuals into other vacant positions across the county,” he said. What exactly happens to those employees would be based on what positions are offered to them, their labor contracts and their personal needs, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor Susan Ellenberg lauded those efforts given the county’s total workforce size of roughly 22,000 people, and hopes the county can support every worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s rather extraordinary… to be able to find enough places to make budget cuts, look for increased revenue and be able to consolidate and increase efficiencies with such a relatively small number of employees being impacted,” she said. “Of course, for any single employee, that makes all the difference in the world…but we have been very successful in leveraging positions that are either vacant now or we know have upcoming retirements or other planned separations from the county.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The county is facing significant cuts to federal Medicaid and food assistance funding stemming from President Donald Trump’s H.R. 1 bill, which is expected to amount to more than $1 billion in annual revenue losses for Santa Clara County in the coming years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has also this year shifted the requirements and funding model for mental health and behavioral health programs after the passage of Proposition 1 by voters in 2024, which Williams said “has really turned the fiscal world in behavioral health upside down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On top of federal and state funding challenges, the county, like many other organizations and households, has also seen rising costs for labor, goods, services and utilities, while property tax revenue has not kept pace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest way the county is coping with the cuts is through the emergency injection of $337 million expected to be provided by a new sales tax approved by 57% of voters last year, called Measure A. The measure increases sales tax across the county by five-eighths of a cent for every one dollar spent, and is in place for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams and his staff recommended putting all of the Measure A money for the current budget year into Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, the county’s public hospital and clinic system, to help lessen the blow from Medicaid cuts enacted by Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250924-ELECTION-SJ-MEASURE-A_00662_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara Valley Medical Center stands on 751 South Bascom Avenue in San José on Sept. 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>County supervisors also previously approved nearly $200 million in budget cuts in February during the mid-year budget review, including cutting roughly 365 positions that were largely vacant and focused on the county’s healthcare system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While planning for 655 cuts, the county is simultaneously considering adding 191 positions, especially in areas that are growing but aren’t reliant on federal funds, like parks and libraries, for a net cut of 464 positions, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two county-run behavioral health clinics are expected to be closed, but Williams said the services will be transitioned to other facilities or community organizations that provide services for the county already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellenberg said the idea of consolidating clinics on its face doesn’t worry her too much, so long as people who need those services aren’t challenged to find them elsewhere nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she added that in general, the on-the-ground impacts from broad budget recommendations to alter contracts and leases and reduce positions is where she will focus as supervisors go through budget workshops and reviews next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many aspects of it that are not yet clear to me, particularly around impact… I need to understand how that impacts particular populations, especially the very high-need and vulnerable residents that the county serves,” Ellenberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor Susan Ellenberg, speaks during an event celebrating the opening of Vermont House, a new residential treatment facility in San José for people leaving jail with mental health needs. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Williams said the county has been aiming to preserve or expand services for those in most need across the county. He pointed to plans for new “satellite clinics in high-need communities,” as well as the planned opening of the county’s behavioral health pavilion on the campus of Santa Clara Valley Medical Center later this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pavilion will include the first child and adolescent inpatient psychiatric unit in the South Bay, Williams said, and will be staffed by transferring positions from elsewhere in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re continuing to expand in critical areas and areas with significant community demand where there’s significant need. We haven’t taken our eye off the ball,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams said the county has “moved mountains” to preserve critical services in the face of unprecedented cuts, and said voters have stepped up at an important time. But he called directly on the governor and legislature to help counties across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to see a forceful, clear and unequivocal response at the state level to what’s happening with H.R. 1,” he said. “There’s no way our county or any other can do this alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s Board of Supervisors will hold three consecutive budget workshops May 11-13, and will hold three more sessions to adopt a final budget in mid-June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is not the only government facing down budget deficits, as South Bay cities look for ways to close their gaps while maintaining critical services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240802-VTAFEDFUND-JG-1.jpg\" alt=\"The mayor of San Jose stands behind a podium. 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"content": "\u003cp>Maria-Elena Healy knew layoffs could be coming, but the vague warnings and whispers she had heard leading up to Monday didn’t prepare her for the shock that morning when she and three other nurses at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/laguna-honda-hospital\">Laguna Honda Hospital and Rehabilitation Center\u003c/a> found out they were losing their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard to hear. It just felt like we had leadership who were not transparent and didn’t value the expertise of clinicians that actually work at the bedside,” said Healy, a registered nurse who grew up in San Francisco and has worked at Laguna Honda for 10 years. “Staff members are reaching out to us across all disciplines, saying, ‘What’s going to happen to your work?’ It just doesn’t make sense.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ax is expected to fall on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075213/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-looks-to-eliminate-500-city-jobs\">hundreds of city workers\u003c/a> like Healy as San Francisco looks to narrow its $643 million budget deficit over the next two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070484/tune-in-tonight-san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-live-on-kqed\">Mayor Daniel Lurie’s administration\u003c/a> sent 127 layoff notices to city employees across 18 different departments, part of a total of around 500 positions that the mayor intends to cut. Additional layoffs are expected to be announced later this spring, and the mayor has said he also intends to freeze about 2,000 open positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a choice: take action now or be forced to do twice as much in the coming years,” Lurie said in a statement. “The steps we’re taking today are a painful but necessary continuation of the work we’ve been doing since last year to manage taxpayer dollars responsibly and deliver the best possible services for San Franciscans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Departments impacted by the 127 layoffs so far include the Department of Public Health, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, the City Administrator’s Office, the Human Services Agency and the Police Department. A spokesperson for Lurie’s office did not specify which departments have seen the most layoffs so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958378\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11958378\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62463_010_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Signage reading Laguna Honda Hospital over the entryway to a large tile-roofed building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62463_010_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62463_010_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62463_010_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62463_010_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62463_010_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS62463_010_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Laguna Honda Hospital administration building in San Francisco on Jan. 31, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The layoffs were expected even as the city’s projected budget deficit improved from $936 million to $643 million in a recent \u003ca href=\"https://media.api.sf.gov/documents/March_Update_FY_26-27_through_FY_29-30_FINAL.pdf\">City Controller’s report\u003c/a>. President Donald Trump’s federal spending cuts have drastically deepened the city’s budget shortfall, and in December, Lurie directed departments to find ways to cut a total of $400 million ahead of his budget proposal coming next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But city workers and advocates for the services they provide say the city is ignoring alternatives that could save jobs and minimize impacts to residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has funds. They just need to dip into their reserves,” Healy said. “There’s no reason to diminish the care that we provide to the residents of San Francisco. This is a safety net hospital.”[aside postID=news_12078490 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/GroceriesAP.jpg']She and others are also calling for the passage of Proposition D, the Overpaid CEO Act, which would levy taxes on large corporations where the chief executive earns more than 100 times their median employee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In one of the richest cities in the world, cuts like this are a choice, not a necessity,” Mark Leach, Teamsters 856 representative and San Francisco resident, said in a statement. “Large corporations are cashing in on Trump’s tax breaks, but we can make them pay their fair share in San Francisco by passing Prop D in June.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the proposition say it could generate up to $300 million in funding to backfill money the city has lost in economic fallout surrounding the pandemic and since cuts by the Trump Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s goal to shave off $400 million in annual spending includes about $100 million from personnel savings, which his administration has estimated will translate to about 500 positions eliminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some workers who received pink slips this week got a 30-day notice, and others may have 60 days, depending on their position and tenure. Some civil service employees whose jobs are being eliminated will be able to request a different position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079148\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079148\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Maria-Elena-Healy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"995\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Maria-Elena-Healy-2.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/Maria-Elena-Healy-2-160x212.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria-Elena Healy, a registered nurse at Laguna Honda Hospital, was among the 127 San Francisco city workers to receive layoff notices this week. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Maria-Elena Healy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Healy said she received a 60-day notice for her termination, but any details on her employment options with the city have been opaque.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They actually could not answer some of the questions that we had,” Healy said. “It’s very difficult to make decisions about our lives and our livelihoods when the city failed to even give us the information that we needed to make those decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Healy said she and her three colleagues, who were also laid off, are clinical nurse specialists with expertise in certain areas, like cardiovascular health and diabetes care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s seen Laguna Honda, one of the country’s oldest and largest public skilled nursing homes, weather a storm of regulatory challenges in recent years, including when state and federal regulators pulled its Medicaid and Medicare certification and nearly shut the hospital down several years ago amid a series of safety violations. The facility has since made safety improvements and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991292/laguna-honda-recertified-by-medicare-in-major-milestone-for-san-francisco-hospital\">regained certification\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of our role as clinical nurse specialists has actually been to help support the facility through being recertified. We are trained to look at system issues and develop programs to support the needs of patients,” Healy said. “It just felt like the organization doesn’t understand how we helped use our skills to bring us back to certification.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has about 30,000 employees overall and a nearly $16 billion budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts this year come after the city managed to stave off many of the layoffs proposed during last year’s budget cycle. Last cycle, Lurie sought to eliminate 100 filled positions, but after negotiations with city leaders, unions and stakeholders, 40 jobs were cut. The final plan cut about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">1,400 mostly vacant positions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My job as mayor is to set up our city for success, not just today but for years to come,” Lurie said in response to the recent controller’s report, which projected a lower budget deficit overall. “We will deliver a fiscally sound budget that prioritizes core services, delivers results for San Franciscans and ensures a broad and durable economic recovery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie must present his upcoming budget proposal by June 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Brielle Pajares never thought the charming and supportive man she fell in love with would one day send her running for her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s exactly what happened in 2023, after the couple moved into a new place together in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> with her two boys. Her partner began isolating their family from friends, and things escalated one night when he choked and beat her after she said she was leaving because of his drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she escaped after biting his arm to break free. But when the police came, 4-foot-11-inch Pajares was the one arrested after he showed cops the bite marks, she said. Without any alternative place to go, she said she returned home after three nights in jail. Her abuser later installed a metal lock on the door, purchased a rifle and threatened to kill her if she ever tried to leave again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One thing every survivor understands is that leaving an abuser can be the most dangerous moment of all. When control is slipping away, violence often escalates, sometimes to the point of deadly harm,” she said. “That was the reality I was facing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pajares eventually worked up the courage to leave, spending nights on the street and couch surfing with friends, before she finally found assistance from the nonprofit Compass Family Services and moved into a new place. But she has not yet obtained a restraining order from her abuser, and now that her housing is more stable, navigating the legal system has been a new nightmare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s extremely scary as someone who’s been through the trauma of having to go to jail as a result of trying to speak up,” Pajares told KQED. “We don’t get the legal assistance we need, and therefore we feel that we don’t have a voice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years ago, San Francisco took a step aimed at making sure women in the city don’t have the same experience as Pajares. But advocates say the city hasn’t gone far enough, and are calling on officials to do more to support survivors amid concerns budget woes will push their cause to the back burner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BreedLeeStefani_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1273\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BreedLeeStefani_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BreedLeeStefani_qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BreedLeeStefani_qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BreedLeeStefani_qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BreedLeeStefani_qut-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ivy Lee (center), flanked by San Francisco Mayor London Breed (left) and Supervisor Catherine Stefani, was announced as director of the city’s new Office of Victim and Witness Rights at a press conference in the West Portal neighborhood on May 28. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2022, voters approved Proposition D, a ballot measure championed by former Supervisor Catherine Stefani that created the Office of Victim and Witness Rights and tasked the new department with establishing a right to legal counsel for survivors of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the successful measure did not allocate any funds to operate the new office or legal services, and no funding has been directed toward the program, effectively rendering it inactive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has also slashed spending in recent years to address a yawning budget deficit. This year, Mayor Daniel Lurie directed all departments to make cuts to close the city’s $900 million shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor, who campaigned on being tough on crime, has so far refrained from making cuts to public safety. Many types of crime have decreased over the past year in San Francisco, but domestic violence has fluctuated, going up 1% from December 2024 to December 2025, then down 2% this January compared to the prior year, according to San Francisco Police Department crime reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domestic violence work “is such an essential part of the mayor’s initiative for safety,” said Sierra Sparks, the associate director of development at Open Door Legal, which provides legal aid services to domestic violence survivors. “We need to ensure that our most vulnerable residents are also protected and that there’s a plan in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077744\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077744\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/DV2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/DV2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/DV2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/DV2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sierra Sparks, an associate director of development at Open Door Legal, on March 25, 2026. Sparks is among the advocates calling on San Francisco to invest more funding into legal services for survivors of domestic violence. \u003ccite>(Sydney Johnson/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates are calling on the city to stave off cuts and find alternative sources of funding, such as supporting the proposed Overpaid CEO Tax, which would tax companies where the CEO earns at least 100 times the median-income employee. They also want the city to fund more legal aid services for survivors of domestic violence, and say the city is obligated to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Prop D] is exactly the kind of thing we need for our economic recovery and helps the most vulnerable communities,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, coordinator for the People’s Budget Coalition, a group of unions and community organizations fighting anticipated budget cuts. “We want to see no cuts to domestic violence, and we need to see an increased investment in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the city looks to make difficult budget cuts across departments, Sparks and others are concerned that the funding for legal and other domestic violence services could be on the chopping block. It’s deja vu for advocates who sounded the alarm for similar threats to domestic violence services during last year’s budget cycle. The issue is now even more dire with the Trump administration making major cuts to federal health care and social services, advocates said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We heard that they’re looking at taking deep cuts from some small agencies that serve really marginalized communities, like the Asian Women’s Shelter. There are other places to cut besides lifeline services,” said Beverly Upton, executive director of the San Francisco Domestic Violence Consortium. “We are hoping to see a better outcome in the mayor’s budget. We are really hoping he will find a different place where it won’t have such a huge impact.”[aside postID=news_12053754 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/IMG_1139-2000x1500.jpg']At this time, the mayor has not yet released his official budget proposal, which is expected in May. Officials in the mayor’s office did not comment on whether the city is looking to fund Prop D’s right-to-counsel program this year for the first time. However, the city is currently studying how the approach could work and what amount of funding it would require, either from the city or outside private sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors on the Government Audit and Oversight Committee recently approved a waiver to allow the city to privately fundraise donations for survivors of crimes, including domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Mayor’s Office of Victims’ Rights is working with a partner organization on a pro-bono basis to conduct an analysis on how the city can most effectively run a domestic violence right-to-counsel program,” a spokesperson from the mayor’s office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, survivors like Pajares are often left with little help navigating how to escape a relationship or getting back on their feet once they do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Domestic violence is not only a matter of life or death for the individuals involved, but it often has a direct correlation to the city’s rates of homelessness, something many survivors like Pajares have experienced as they flee an abuser.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, 43% of families who were assessed for housing between 2024-25 reported that they were escaping violence, according to an email from San Francisco’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing that was shared with KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I had legal counsel, it would have just expedited that process [of leaving],” Pajares said, “and I probably would have had a restraining order. 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But advocates say the city hasn’t gone far enough, and are calling on officials to do more to support survivors amid concerns budget woes will push their cause to the back burner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11987931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11987931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BreedLeeStefani_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1273\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BreedLeeStefani_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BreedLeeStefani_qut-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BreedLeeStefani_qut-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BreedLeeStefani_qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/BreedLeeStefani_qut-1536x1018.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ivy Lee (center), flanked by San Francisco Mayor London Breed (left) and Supervisor Catherine Stefani, was announced as director of the city’s new Office of Victim and Witness Rights at a press conference in the West Portal neighborhood on May 28. \u003ccite>(Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2022, voters approved Proposition D, a ballot measure championed by former Supervisor Catherine Stefani that created the Office of Victim and Witness Rights and tasked the new department with establishing a right to legal counsel for survivors of domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the successful measure did not allocate any funds to operate the new office or legal services, and no funding has been directed toward the program, effectively rendering it inactive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco has also slashed spending in recent years to address a yawning budget deficit. 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"content": "\u003cp>Facing a projected budget shortfall of $56 million, San José Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/matt-mahan\">Matt Mahan\u003c/a> on Tuesday called for a round of belt-tightening at City Hall in his annual spending plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan, who is running for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075490/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-positions-himself-as-a-change-candidate-in-governors-race\">California governor\u003c/a>, acknowledged that cuts are likely unavoidable given sluggish tax returns and rising employee costs — but he called for the preservation of funding for five city “focus areas” that have defined both his mayoralty and his nascent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12071306/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-announces-run-for-california-governor\">statewide campaign\u003c/a>: unsheltered homelessness, public safety, housing production, neighborhood cleanup and economic growth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our current fiscal outlook demands that we make difficult trade-offs to maintain critical core services for our residents,” Mahan wrote in his March Budget Message. “Recommitting to focus reinforces our commitment to fiscal sustainability and cost-effective service delivery.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan did not identify specific positions for cuts. Under San José’s weak-mayor system, that work will be left to the city manager, who oversees the municipal workforce and crafts a detailed budget based on the mayor’s budget message.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his message, Mahan called broadly for reductions to come with minimal service impacts; investments in downtown to spur economic activity; and the pursuit of new revenue, including a potential expansion of the parcel tax that supports libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he vowed to reduce the ongoing cost of his \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072999/tiny-homes-big-ambitions-matt-mahans-run-for-governor-spotlights-his-shelter-strategy\">signature program\u003c/a>: a network of shelters and tiny homes for people experiencing homelessness that Mahan has credited for a drop in the city’s unsheltered homeless population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12075969\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12075969\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20230801-SJCityHall-21-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20230801-SJCityHall-21-JY_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20230801-SJCityHall-21-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20230801-SJCityHall-21-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians walk past City Hall in San José, California, on Aug. 1, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city council will review Mahan’s initial budget plan on March 17. That vote will be followed by months of hearings and negotiations, before the council votes on a final budget in early June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Tucker, senior union representative for AFSCME Local 101, said there is a “pretty big concern” that layoffs could be coming. AFSCME represents most unionized municipal employees, including workers at San José Mineta International Airport and city libraries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San José already runs with one of the leanest city workforces of any major city in the country,” Tucker said. “So, when budget pressure like this hits, there’s not really a lot of cushion — and what that usually looks like then is reduced library hours and longer response times for services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanjoseca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/128789/639081378653070000\">budget forecast\u003c/a> released last week, San José’s city manager wrote that while city revenues are only slightly lower than anticipated last year, projected expenditures are running $54.2 million higher — largely driven by increases in employee compensation and retirement contributions.[aside postID=news_12075490 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260227-MATT-MAHAN-ON-PB-MD-05-KQED.jpg']Last fall, the city council unanimously approved a new contract with San José’s police union with wage increases of 7%, 5% and 3%, which will cost an \u003ca href=\"https://sanjose.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=14792860&GUID=534B17E5-8894-4197-B2DE-396CB354F373\">estimated\u003c/a> $14.3 million in the upcoming fiscal year, according to the city’s director of human resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The forecast also pointed to the cost of the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072666/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-wants-to-be-governor-heres-a-look-into-his-signature-homelessness-program\">interim housing program\u003c/a>, which has rapidly expanded during Mahan’s time as mayor to include nearly 2,200 shelter spots across a network of tiny homes, converted motels and RV parking lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of interim housing costs are covered using money in a voter-approved homeless fund — the result of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">previous\u003c/a> budget \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043418/san-jose-council-approves-mahans-shelter-enforcement-plan\">debates\u003c/a> during Mahan’s tenure. But operating costs for the shelters are currently projected to outstrip that Measure E funding, requiring a projected $15 million infusion from the general fund in the upcoming budget year and $29 million in 2027-28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have essentially shifted all of that money to [interim housing], and it is still not enough,” Councilmember Pamela Campos said in an interview. “It is unsustainable to be addressing our homelessness crisis at a level that is so focused on one faction of the issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan has described those forecasts as “pessimistic” and is promising to drive down interim housing costs by re-bidding contracts, obtaining funding from the state government and Santa Clara County and exploring the idea of charging interim housing residents a fee for their stay or having them assume maintenance tasks at the properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As we complete this phase of shelter expansion, we are shifting focus to system optimization: building on our progress by lowering operating costs without compromising outcomes,” Mahan wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042506\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042506\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250529-SJARRESTSHELTERVOTE-14-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An interim housing site is built near an unhoused community along the Guadalupe River in San José on May 29, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City budget analysts are projecting that this year’s shortfall will be followed by smaller deficits of $26.8 million in 2027-28 and $11.8 million in 2028-29, before expected surpluses at the end of the decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retirement costs, the subject of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10656386/san-joses-long-and-winding-road-to-pension-reform-takes-another-turn\">bitter political fights\u003c/a> last decade, are expected to decrease in future budget years — from $405.1 million in 2026-27 to $382.6 million in 2030-31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, labor relations remain a volatile political issue in California’s third-largest city.[aside postID=news_12074738 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260223-PLEASANTHILLSDEV-12-BL-KQED.jpg']In 2023, Mahan was the lone vote against a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958290/san-jose-city-council-approves-agreements-with-unions-to-avoid-strike\">wage agreement\u003c/a> with two unions representing nearly 4,500 city workers that narrowly avoided a strike. In a recent interview with KQED’s \u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>, Mahan said the city’s current fiscal outlook has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075490/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-positions-himself-as-a-change-candidate-in-governors-race\">vindicated\u003c/a> him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over my warning, our council, under an incredible amount of pressure from some of our unions, gave a 14.5% raise over three years,” Mahan said. “This year we will be cutting services, we will be laying off unionized workers as a result, and it was avoidable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tucker, the union representative, called Mahan’s comment “concerning.” He pointed to the wage increase for police officers and questioned the administration’s downtown spending related to major sporting events and future upgrades to the SAP Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the city can spend on hockey arena upgrades and global events like the Super Bowl and the World Cup and March Madness, it should be able to fund the workforce that continues to deliver services,” Tucker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new infusion of tax revenue could be on the way to help ease future cuts. City leaders are asking San José voters to approve a 2% increase in the city’s hotel tax that could raise $10 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In 2023, Mahan was the lone vote against a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958290/san-jose-city-council-approves-agreements-with-unions-to-avoid-strike\">wage agreement\u003c/a> with two unions representing nearly 4,500 city workers that narrowly avoided a strike. In a recent interview with KQED’s \u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em>, Mahan said the city’s current fiscal outlook has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12075490/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-positions-himself-as-a-change-candidate-in-governors-race\">vindicated\u003c/a> him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over my warning, our council, under an incredible amount of pressure from some of our unions, gave a 14.5% raise over three years,” Mahan said. “This year we will be cutting services, we will be laying off unionized workers as a result, and it was avoidable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tucker, the union representative, called Mahan’s comment “concerning.” He pointed to the wage increase for police officers and questioned the administration’s downtown spending related to major sporting events and future upgrades to the SAP Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If the city can spend on hockey arena upgrades and global events like the Super Bowl and the World Cup and March Madness, it should be able to fund the workforce that continues to deliver services,” Tucker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new infusion of tax revenue could be on the way to help ease future cuts. City leaders are asking San José voters to approve a 2% increase in the city’s hotel tax that could raise $10 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:25 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a> sale has officially passed one of its last major hurdles: Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036060/oakland-pushes-coliseum-sale-next-year-delaying-funds-again\">of standstill\u003c/a>, waiting for the board’s approval, supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to reassign the county’s interest in the Coliseum property to local developers known as the African American Sports and Entertainment Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is an important critical step in a monumental process,” Ray Bobbitt, managing partner of AASEG, said ahead of the vote. “This community has stepped forward and allowed us to be patient, perseverant and to make sure that we have been in prayer. We just want to say thank you so much for the opportunity to move this forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a year ago, AASEG excitedly announced their intent to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987346/oakland-to-sell-coliseum-to-black-led-developer-group-after-as-depart\">buy and redevelop the former home of the Oakland A’s\u003c/a>, but contract negotiations and complicated ownership hang-ups have plagued the deal process, especially with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote to finalize the county’s role in the deal, according to Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, will finally give the group the power and assurance to begin that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teams prepare the field at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’ll be one organization that will own the entire Coliseum so that redevelopment and revitalization can move forward,” she told KQED ahead of the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s happening:\u003c/strong> Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors has been in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022106/alameda-county-moves-closer-to-oakland-coliseum-sale-final-vote-expected-in-30-days\">monthslong negotiation\u003c/a> with AASEG over the developers’ purchase of the A’s stake in the Coliseum. Even though the county \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742341/alameda-county-oks-plan-to-sell-its-share-of-oakland-coliseum-complex-to-as\">agreed to sell its half\u003c/a> to the Major League Baseball team in 2019, it has to approve the AASEG deal as the original owners, reassigning its interest from the A’s to a group formed by AASEG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s meant a series of closed-door meetings between negotiators, which Bas said have been spent hammering out the “complex” real estate deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, as the board inched closer to finalizing the agreement, Kimberly Gasaway, director of Alameda County’s general services agency, said there were just two outstanding documents that the county needed from AASEG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the board finally voted to reassign its interest in the property to the purchasing company, Oakland Acquisition Company, which is an affiliate of AASEG. Board President David Haubert and Supervisors Elisa Márquez, Nate Miley and Nikki Fortunato Bas all voted in favor of the sale. Board Vice President Lena Tam was excused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12036060 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>In early 2023, AASEG entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement with the city of Oakland to develop the Coliseum site. Over the summer of 2024, as the A’s prepared to play their\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006567/photos-fans-flood-coliseum-to-bid-emotional-farewell-at-as-last-game-in-oakland\"> final game at the Coliseum\u003c/a>, both \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997946/oakland-reaches-deal-on-105-million-coliseum-sale-to-stave-off-budget-cuts\">Oakland\u003c/a> and the team signed deals formalizing sales of their shares to AASEG for $105 million and $125 million, respectively. Shortly after, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">Oakland renegotiated its deal\u003c/a> with AASEG to increase its revenue by $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sale timelines have been delayed as months went by without Alameda County reassigning its interest in the site to the development company. The A’s deal cannot go through until the county does so, and AASEG has paused payments to Oakland, falling behind on its previously negotiated schedule, until the county deal is done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those deals are set to close in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zoom out: \u003c/strong>Slow-moving negotiations with Alameda County have been far from the only bump in the road for the Coliseum deal since 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, then-Mayor Sheng Thao announced that more than $60 million in revenue from the sale would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cutshttps:/www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cuts\">used to help patch an even larger hole in Oakland’s budget\u003c/a>. Shortly after AASEG and the city finalized their deal in July 2024, though, the payment timeline was pushed back, forcing the city to institute a bare-bones “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">contingency budget\u003c/a>” that caused fire station closures and police cuts, and eroded public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has not made any payments to the city since the start of the year. The projected revenue from the sale is not included in the city’s 2025 budget plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006691\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packed stands at the Oakland Coliseum for the A’s last home game on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>It’s unclear if AASEG plans to hand Oakland a lump sum for the payments missed due to county delays, or if the deal timeline with either the city or Oakland will be further revised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s $5 billion plan has raised eyebrows — and concerns about feasibility — since it was announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the sole owners, AASEG will also have to begin work on a community benefits agreement, which was required by its city deal. The deal aims to ensure that development \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041329/oaklands-army-base-redevelopment-was-a-win-for-locals-can-the-coliseum-be-the-same\">serves the surrounding East Oakland community\u003c/a>, where decades of disinvestment by businesses and the A’s have decimated the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has already committed to making 25% of any housing built affordable, and in the next five years, will have to begin to negotiate a bundle of other community benefits with stakeholders like Black Cultural Zone, Brotherhood of Elders, local youth centers and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shonda Scott, one of the entertainment group’s members, told KQED when the deals were being negotiated that AASEG is looking forward to that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s us being of the community, giving back to the community and making sure it’s done equitably, especially for those who have been historically disenfranchised in these sixth and seventh district areas that the Coliseum is a part of,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over a year ago, AASEG excitedly announced their intent to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987346/oakland-to-sell-coliseum-to-black-led-developer-group-after-as-depart\">buy and redevelop the former home of the Oakland A’s\u003c/a>, but contract negotiations and complicated ownership hang-ups have plagued the deal process, especially with the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote to finalize the county’s role in the deal, according to Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas, will finally give the group the power and assurance to begin that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12032884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12032884\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240920-COLISEUM-WORKERS-MD-06_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teams prepare the field at the Oakland Coliseum in Oakland on Sept. 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There’ll be one organization that will own the entire Coliseum so that redevelopment and revitalization can move forward,” she told KQED ahead of the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What’s happening:\u003c/strong> Alameda County’s Board of Supervisors has been in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022106/alameda-county-moves-closer-to-oakland-coliseum-sale-final-vote-expected-in-30-days\">monthslong negotiation\u003c/a> with AASEG over the developers’ purchase of the A’s stake in the Coliseum. Even though the county \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11742341/alameda-county-oks-plan-to-sell-its-share-of-oakland-coliseum-complex-to-as\">agreed to sell its half\u003c/a> to the Major League Baseball team in 2019, it has to approve the AASEG deal as the original owners, reassigning its interest from the A’s to a group formed by AASEG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s meant a series of closed-door meetings between negotiators, which Bas said have been spent hammering out the “complex” real estate deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, as the board inched closer to finalizing the agreement, Kimberly Gasaway, director of Alameda County’s general services agency, said there were just two outstanding documents that the county needed from AASEG.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the board finally voted to reassign its interest in the property to the purchasing company, Oakland Acquisition Company, which is an affiliate of AASEG. Board President David Haubert and Supervisors Elisa Márquez, Nate Miley and Nikki Fortunato Bas all voted in favor of the sale. Board Vice President Lena Tam was excused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The context: \u003c/strong>In early 2023, AASEG entered into an exclusive negotiating agreement with the city of Oakland to develop the Coliseum site. Over the summer of 2024, as the A’s prepared to play their\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006567/photos-fans-flood-coliseum-to-bid-emotional-farewell-at-as-last-game-in-oakland\"> final game at the Coliseum\u003c/a>, both \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997946/oakland-reaches-deal-on-105-million-coliseum-sale-to-stave-off-budget-cuts\">Oakland\u003c/a> and the team signed deals formalizing sales of their shares to AASEG for $105 million and $125 million, respectively. Shortly after, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">Oakland renegotiated its deal\u003c/a> with AASEG to increase its revenue by $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both sale timelines have been delayed as months went by without Alameda County reassigning its interest in the site to the development company. The A’s deal cannot go through until the county does so, and AASEG has paused payments to Oakland, falling behind on its previously negotiated schedule, until the county deal is done.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of those deals are set to close in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Zoom out: \u003c/strong>Slow-moving negotiations with Alameda County have been far from the only bump in the road for the Coliseum deal since 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last spring, then-Mayor Sheng Thao announced that more than $60 million in revenue from the sale would be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cutshttps:/www.kqed.org/news/11987568/oakland-coliseum-sale-expected-to-help-city-avoid-drastic-budget-cuts\">used to help patch an even larger hole in Oakland’s budget\u003c/a>. Shortly after AASEG and the city finalized their deal in July 2024, though, the payment timeline was pushed back, forcing the city to institute a bare-bones “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">contingency budget\u003c/a>” that caused fire station closures and police cuts, and eroded public trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has not made any payments to the city since the start of the year. The projected revenue from the sale is not included in the city’s 2025 budget plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006691\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006691\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-16-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Packed stands at the Oakland Coliseum for the A’s last home game on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we’re watching: \u003c/strong>It’s unclear if AASEG plans to hand Oakland a lump sum for the payments missed due to county delays, or if the deal timeline with either the city or Oakland will be further revised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group’s $5 billion plan has raised eyebrows — and concerns about feasibility — since it was announced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once the sole owners, AASEG will also have to begin work on a community benefits agreement, which was required by its city deal. The deal aims to ensure that development \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041329/oaklands-army-base-redevelopment-was-a-win-for-locals-can-the-coliseum-be-the-same\">serves the surrounding East Oakland community\u003c/a>, where decades of disinvestment by businesses and the A’s have decimated the local economy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has already committed to making 25% of any housing built affordable, and in the next five years, will have to begin to negotiate a bundle of other community benefits with stakeholders like Black Cultural Zone, Brotherhood of Elders, local youth centers and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shonda Scott, one of the entertainment group’s members, told KQED when the deals were being negotiated that AASEG is looking forward to that work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s us being of the community, giving back to the community and making sure it’s done equitably, especially for those who have been historically disenfranchised in these sixth and seventh district areas that the Coliseum is a part of,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is backing down — somewhat — from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044180/spike-in-homelessness-stalled-after-sf-started-these-programs-lurie-is-slashing-them\">his effort\u003c/a> to sweep money set aside for homeless prevention programs and permanent housing to instead fund temporary shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compromise comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044717/dozens-of-protesters-disrupt-sf-supervisors-meeting-to-resist-city-job-cuts\">community groups and experts\u003c/a> warned that the mayor’s plan, proposed last month, could inadvertently inflate the need for temporary shelter if more permanent housing is not available for people to move into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not perfect, but it’s way better than where we started,” said Christin Evans, co-chair of the city’s Homeless Oversight Commission. “If you put all your investment into shelter, you aren’t ending homelessness. You’re perpetuating homelessness and warehousing people. So we need more housing that people can exit shelter into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 14 hours of tense closed-door negotiations, the city’s Budget and Appropriations Committee at 2 a.m. Thursday voted to move the amended $16 billion budget proposal forward to the full Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors also preserved funding for 57 of 100 filled jobs that Lurie had proposed to cut to help balance the city’s nearly $800 million deficit. Lurie had proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">eliminating around 1,400 positions\u003c/a>, most of which are currently vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Passing this budget also required painful decisions that were, unfortunately, necessary to set up our entire city for success,” Lurie said in a statement on Thursday morning. “Leadership means making those tough decisions, and this group of city leaders did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045897\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie delivers remarks on a progress report of his first 100 days in office at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in San Francisco on April 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s initial plan would have reappropriated nearly $88 million from the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to generate revenue for homeless services by taxing the city’s wealthiest businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, about 50% of Proposition C dollars are slated for permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After weeks of negotiations and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045555/activists-flood-sf-city-hall-to-protest-immigrant-support-and-legal-aid-cuts\">protests\u003c/a> from community advocates, the mayor and supervisors agreed to reallocate $34 million toward shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of services, a lot of restorations that we are used to being able to make possible that won’t be reflective of this budget,” Supervisor Shamann Walton said at the marathon hearing. “But most certainly we did work hard to do everything we could to continue critical services.”[aside postID=news_12045555 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-SF-BUDGET-ACTIVISTS-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg']Much of the friction came down to whether Lurie would need a supermajority to make changes to the funding allocations, which were established in the law approved by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the proposal have asserted that the move could potentially violate the law. San Francisco’s city attorney released a memo warning of legal risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this even legal?” Supervisor Jackie Fielder said at the meeting. “It’s absurd that I have to ask that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie must still present legislation to the Board of Supervisors in order to shift the funding. The committee ultimately voted to release its power and require only a simple majority in order to reallocate up to $19 million in future revenue from the Our City, Our Home fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not unreasonable, especially within a limited period of time, to give this new administration a modest amount of flexibility with unanticipated extra funds that may come in,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who voted in favor of the amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other supervisors fired back at the idea, saying the board was caving to the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This mayor wants you to give up the last thing we have, which is the will of the voters,” Fielder said. “I’m hearing people say, ‘What’s the big deal?’ The big deal is precedent … The big deal is democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials are unlikely to make substantive changes to the budget after this week’s vote. The entire board will consider the budget on July 15 and must send it to the mayor for his signature before Aug. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can be assured that, as someone who has been in and out of that room and walking down this hall, this is not everything that Mayor Lurie wants,” said Supervisor Connie Chan, chair of the budget committee. “A great portion of it is really what the board wants, too, for the people who elected us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie made solving street homelessness a central part of his platform while running for mayor last year. Since taking office in January, he’s launched a handful of initiatives aimed at targeting homelessness from different angles, as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031581/first-look-sf-mayor-luries-yearlong-plan-homelessness-response\">his “Breaking the Cycle” plan\u003c/a>. So far, it’s included opening up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038376/tenderloin-welcomes-mental-health-clinic-demands-broader-city-action-on-homelessness\">drop-in behavioral health site in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>, consolidating street crisis response teams and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034214/san-francisco-ends-health-programs-for-drug-users-not-active-in-treatment\">walking back some publicly-funded overdose prevention programs\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12045887 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/ggbridge_003_qed.jpg']This spring, Lurie also launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040581/to-revitalize-downtown-sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-taps-citys-wealthy-elite\">a public-private fund to raise money\u003c/a> for building more temporary shelter beds. Even with private sector support, however, Lurie will not meet a key campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds in his first six months in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor has said the city needs more shelter beds in order to get more people off the street quicker and connected to other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am confident that this budget answers San Francisco’s call for us to build a safer, cleaner and thriving San Francisco,” Lurie said in a press conference on Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because there is not enough housing for people to move into after they land in a shelter. Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller using data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1991px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1991\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg 1991w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1991px) 100vw, 1991px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outdoor triage center at the 469 Stevenson St. parking lot in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2025. At the site, individuals who were arrested get dropped off, where they can either get treatment, take a bus out of town or go to jail. The center, operating as a 30-day pilot program, also offers resources and food to individuals. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates feared that stripping money set aside for homeless prevention could cause more people to become homeless, increasing the immediate need for temporary shelters. Without enough permanent supportive housing, advocates said, the city would exacerbate the bottleneck of people entering and exiting the homelessness response system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about creating balance between shelter and housing,” Evans said. “That’s where we landed, instead of putting all our investments into one part of the system: building shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community advocates agree that the city could use more shelter beds. But concerns that funding temporary beds at the expense of prevention programs and housing that people can move into after a shelter stay have been a sticking point in budget negotiations this month, which have also addressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045555/activists-flood-sf-city-hall-to-protest-immigrant-support-and-legal-aid-cuts#:~:text=Lurie's%20proposal%20balances%20a%20%24782,positions%20across%2040%20different%20departments.\">Lurie’s proposed cuts to nonprofits\u003c/a> and legal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a deep sense of anger and sadness as nonprofits will have to close their doors. Many services were not saved,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, an organizer with the People’s Budget Coalition, a group of around 150 organizations fighting against the proposed layoffs and cuts to community services. “But we are deeply proud of the services we were able to restore, like general legal aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is backing down — somewhat — from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044180/spike-in-homelessness-stalled-after-sf-started-these-programs-lurie-is-slashing-them\">his effort\u003c/a> to sweep money set aside for homeless prevention programs and permanent housing to instead fund temporary shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The compromise comes after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044717/dozens-of-protesters-disrupt-sf-supervisors-meeting-to-resist-city-job-cuts\">community groups and experts\u003c/a> warned that the mayor’s plan, proposed last month, could inadvertently inflate the need for temporary shelter if more permanent housing is not available for people to move into.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not perfect, but it’s way better than where we started,” said Christin Evans, co-chair of the city’s Homeless Oversight Commission. “If you put all your investment into shelter, you aren’t ending homelessness. You’re perpetuating homelessness and warehousing people. So we need more housing that people can exit shelter into.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After more than 14 hours of tense closed-door negotiations, the city’s Budget and Appropriations Committee at 2 a.m. Thursday voted to move the amended $16 billion budget proposal forward to the full Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors also preserved funding for 57 of 100 filled jobs that Lurie had proposed to cut to help balance the city’s nearly $800 million deficit. Lurie had proposed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">eliminating around 1,400 positions\u003c/a>, most of which are currently vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Passing this budget also required painful decisions that were, unfortunately, necessary to set up our entire city for success,” Lurie said in a statement on Thursday morning. “Leadership means making those tough decisions, and this group of city leaders did that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045897\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045897\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250417_Lurie100Days_GC-9_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie delivers remarks on a progress report of his first 100 days in office at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in San Francisco on April 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s initial plan would have reappropriated nearly $88 million from the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to generate revenue for homeless services by taxing the city’s wealthiest businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, about 50% of Proposition C dollars are slated for permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After weeks of negotiations and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045555/activists-flood-sf-city-hall-to-protest-immigrant-support-and-legal-aid-cuts\">protests\u003c/a> from community advocates, the mayor and supervisors agreed to reallocate $34 million toward shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot of services, a lot of restorations that we are used to being able to make possible that won’t be reflective of this budget,” Supervisor Shamann Walton said at the marathon hearing. “But most certainly we did work hard to do everything we could to continue critical services.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Much of the friction came down to whether Lurie would need a supermajority to make changes to the funding allocations, which were established in the law approved by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics of the proposal have asserted that the move could potentially violate the law. San Francisco’s city attorney released a memo warning of legal risks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this even legal?” Supervisor Jackie Fielder said at the meeting. “It’s absurd that I have to ask that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie must still present legislation to the Board of Supervisors in order to shift the funding. The committee ultimately voted to release its power and require only a simple majority in order to reallocate up to $19 million in future revenue from the Our City, Our Home fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not unreasonable, especially within a limited period of time, to give this new administration a modest amount of flexibility with unanticipated extra funds that may come in,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who voted in favor of the amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other supervisors fired back at the idea, saying the board was caving to the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This mayor wants you to give up the last thing we have, which is the will of the voters,” Fielder said. “I’m hearing people say, ‘What’s the big deal?’ The big deal is precedent … The big deal is democracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>City officials are unlikely to make substantive changes to the budget after this week’s vote. The entire board will consider the budget on July 15 and must send it to the mayor for his signature before Aug. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can be assured that, as someone who has been in and out of that room and walking down this hall, this is not everything that Mayor Lurie wants,” said Supervisor Connie Chan, chair of the budget committee. “A great portion of it is really what the board wants, too, for the people who elected us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie made solving street homelessness a central part of his platform while running for mayor last year. Since taking office in January, he’s launched a handful of initiatives aimed at targeting homelessness from different angles, as part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031581/first-look-sf-mayor-luries-yearlong-plan-homelessness-response\">his “Breaking the Cycle” plan\u003c/a>. So far, it’s included opening up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038376/tenderloin-welcomes-mental-health-clinic-demands-broader-city-action-on-homelessness\">drop-in behavioral health site in the Tenderloin\u003c/a>, consolidating street crisis response teams and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034214/san-francisco-ends-health-programs-for-drug-users-not-active-in-treatment\">walking back some publicly-funded overdose prevention programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>This spring, Lurie also launched \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040581/to-revitalize-downtown-sf-mayor-daniel-lurie-taps-citys-wealthy-elite\">a public-private fund to raise money\u003c/a> for building more temporary shelter beds. Even with private sector support, however, Lurie will not meet a key campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds in his first six months in office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor has said the city needs more shelter beds in order to get more people off the street quicker and connected to other resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am confident that this budget answers San Francisco’s call for us to build a safer, cleaner and thriving San Francisco,” Lurie said in a press conference on Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s partly because there is not enough housing for people to move into after they land in a shelter. Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller using data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034110\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1991px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1991\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed.jpg 1991w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250211_SFPoliceTriage_GC-16_qed-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1991px) 100vw, 1991px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An outdoor triage center at the 469 Stevenson St. parking lot in San Francisco on Feb. 11, 2025. At the site, individuals who were arrested get dropped off, where they can either get treatment, take a bus out of town or go to jail. The center, operating as a 30-day pilot program, also offers resources and food to individuals. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Advocates feared that stripping money set aside for homeless prevention could cause more people to become homeless, increasing the immediate need for temporary shelters. Without enough permanent supportive housing, advocates said, the city would exacerbate the bottleneck of people entering and exiting the homelessness response system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about creating balance between shelter and housing,” Evans said. “That’s where we landed, instead of putting all our investments into one part of the system: building shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many community advocates agree that the city could use more shelter beds. But concerns that funding temporary beds at the expense of prevention programs and housing that people can move into after a shelter stay have been a sticking point in budget negotiations this month, which have also addressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045555/activists-flood-sf-city-hall-to-protest-immigrant-support-and-legal-aid-cuts#:~:text=Lurie's%20proposal%20balances%20a%20%24782,positions%20across%2040%20different%20departments.\">Lurie’s proposed cuts to nonprofits\u003c/a> and legal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is a deep sense of anger and sadness as nonprofits will have to close their doors. Many services were not saved,” said Anya Worley-Ziegmann, an organizer with the People’s Budget Coalition, a group of around 150 organizations fighting against the proposed layoffs and cuts to community services. “But we are deeply proud of the services we were able to restore, like general legal aid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Hundreds of activists flooded \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s City Hall Monday to protest cuts to nonprofit funding in the city’s pending budget, saying the mayor is pulling back support for working-class and low-income San Franciscans at a time these communities are facing threats from the federal government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During more than eight hours of public comment on the city’s spending plan, hundreds of housing caseworkers, immigrants’ rights advocates and nonprofit employees set to have their budgets and roles slashed to cure the city’s massive shortfall, voiced their frustrations to city supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco was built on the backs of immigrants and working-class communities of color, and right now, we need San Francisco to put its money where its mouth is,” said Claire Lau, a campaign coordinator with the Chinese Progressive Association. “We see that in all levels of government, our social safety net is already falling apart … We need the city to strengthen our social safety net here, right at home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s proposal balances a $782 million shortfall over the next two years, in part by shaving $200 million off of nonprofits’ budgets. Public safety departments and his own office maintain their funding under his plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal also eliminates \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12044717/dozens-of-protesters-disrupt-sf-supervisors-meeting-to-resist-city-job-cuts\">1,400 city positions\u003c/a> across 40 different departments. Many of these positions are vacant, but about 400 are currently staffed, and around 100 people could be laid off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045558\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-SF-BUDGET-ACTIVISTS-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-SF-BUDGET-ACTIVISTS-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-SF-BUDGET-ACTIVISTS-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250623-SF-BUDGET-ACTIVISTS-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of the public line up to provide public comment on San Francisco’s proposed budget at City Hall in San Francisco on June 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Organizers gathered Monday during the board’s Budget and Appropriations Committee meeting, some of whom have begun calling themselves the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042690/sf-labor-unions-community-groups-decry-budget-cuts-at-city-hall\">People’s Budget Coalition\u003c/a>, suggested instead that cuts should come from the police’s $60 million overtime budget, and continued funding for a jail in San Bruno that was initially slated to be opened temporarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laura Chiera, the executive director of Legal Services to the Elderly, which works with seniors to ensure they aren’t evicted, said the organization is preparing to lose all funding for its general legal services division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the service is essential to protect tenants — like a recent senior whose landlord locked him out and turned off his power after he refused a request to leave.[aside postID=news_12044717 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250617_SFBUDGETPROTEST_GC-23-KQED.jpg']“The only way to get that power back on for a 77-year-old with severe mobility issues — who has no light, no power, no heat — is to go to court and sue and get a court order ordering that landlord to turn that power on and to not change the keys,” Chiera said. “That was funded by the funding that’s being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition is especially concerned about reduced services for immigrants, given the recent escalation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget plan cuts $250,000 from the Office of Civic Engagement and Immigration Affairs during its second year, and makes deep cuts to nonprofits that serve immigrant families in need of legal support and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042887/ice-arrests-15-people-in-san-francisco-including-a-child\">at least 20 people\u003c/a> have been disappeared by ICE agents at court hearings and asylum case check-ins in San Francisco. In Southern California, ICE agents have arrested people at high school graduations, workplaces and gas stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant families are being torn apart at schools, at workplaces, and in communities,” Lau said. “Some are afraid to go to school, some are afraid to go work and those who do go to work are afraid to speak up when their rights are being violated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036905\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with SFMTA employees at 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She called on the supervisors to increase funding for the city’s Rapid Response Network, which verifies and reports ICE raids, and protect immigrant-oriented food security programs and mental health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around noon, nearly two hours into the marathon comment period, coalition leaders unrolled banners over the City Hall rotunda’s second- and third-story railings that read “No Cuts!” and “New Jail steals $$ from crucial services,” referring to the ongoing funding for the San Bruno annex. Organizers lined the stairs of the room with signs urging the supervisors to “Protect Immigrants Rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about five minutes, sheriff’s officers confiscated the banners, but the long line of commenters winding through the caverns stayed put for another six hours, organizer Anya Worley-Ziegmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We appeal to the Board of Supervisors today to look at options,” said Joe Wilson, the executive director of Hospitality House, a community center that serves the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods. “Options create possibilities, possibilities create hope. Hope is what we need in this budget … and we need a board that fights for hopefulness and fights for its people every single day of the year, not just on budget day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Budget and Appropriations committee will reconvene to discuss amendments to the city’s budget on Wednesday, after which it will advance to the whole board for a vote, likely on the July 1 deadline next Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The only way to get that power back on for a 77-year-old with severe mobility issues — who has no light, no power, no heat — is to go to court and sue and get a court order ordering that landlord to turn that power on and to not change the keys,” Chiera said. “That was funded by the funding that’s being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition is especially concerned about reduced services for immigrants, given the recent escalation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget plan cuts $250,000 from the Office of Civic Engagement and Immigration Affairs during its second year, and makes deep cuts to nonprofits that serve immigrant families in need of legal support and housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042887/ice-arrests-15-people-in-san-francisco-including-a-child\">at least 20 people\u003c/a> have been disappeared by ICE agents at court hearings and asylum case check-ins in San Francisco. In Southern California, ICE agents have arrested people at high school graduations, workplaces and gas stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigrant families are being torn apart at schools, at workplaces, and in communities,” Lau said. “Some are afraid to go to school, some are afraid to go work and those who do go to work are afraid to speak up when their rights are being violated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036905\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250418-SFPDFILE-29-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks with SFMTA employees at 16th and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She called on the supervisors to increase funding for the city’s Rapid Response Network, which verifies and reports ICE raids, and protect immigrant-oriented food security programs and mental health services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around noon, nearly two hours into the marathon comment period, coalition leaders unrolled banners over the City Hall rotunda’s second- and third-story railings that read “No Cuts!” and “New Jail steals $$ from crucial services,” referring to the ongoing funding for the San Bruno annex. Organizers lined the stairs of the room with signs urging the supervisors to “Protect Immigrants Rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about five minutes, sheriff’s officers confiscated the banners, but the long line of commenters winding through the caverns stayed put for another six hours, organizer Anya Worley-Ziegmann said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We appeal to the Board of Supervisors today to look at options,” said Joe Wilson, the executive director of Hospitality House, a community center that serves the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods. “Options create possibilities, possibilities create hope. Hope is what we need in this budget … and we need a board that fights for hopefulness and fights for its people every single day of the year, not just on budget day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Budget and Appropriations committee will reconvene to discuss amendments to the city’s budget on Wednesday, after which it will advance to the whole board for a vote, likely on the July 1 deadline next Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 10:45 a.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly a dozen people were arrested Tuesday afternoon after disrupting a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting where lawmakers were set to discuss a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">budget plan that makes significant cuts to city jobs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 members of local labor unions and supporters rose from the chamber benches in City Hall shortly after the 2 p.m. meeting began, filling the large room with signs and chanting “Protect public services” and “Whose city? Our city.” They say Mayor Daniel Lurie’s plan to issue the city’s first layoff notices in more than a decade is unnecessary and threatens to further constrain under-resourced departments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here once again — it’s not our first time — because we are 100% not OK with all of these layoffs that are proposed in this budget,” said Nicole T. Germain, vice president of representation for the Service Employees International Union Local 1021, one of several unions that represents San Francisco city workers. “There is absolutely no reason that this budget should be balanced on the back of our hardworking San Franciscans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff’s deputies blocked the barricade between protesters and the board but remained mostly silent for more than 20 minutes as the demonstration continued. Supervisors cleared the room when the board went into recess just after 2:30 p.m., and they were not expected to return for at least an hour. The protestors remained in the chambers until after 3:30 p.m., at which point 11 people who were sitting on the chamber floor were arrested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They were cited for intentionally obstructing business and were released shortly after, according to the sheriff’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who walked around to the side of the chamber where protesters were gathered, told KQED during the recess that she understood their concerns. She echoed statements Supervisor Connie Chan \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/06/13/sf-layoffs-daniel-lurie-budget-connie-chan/\">made last week to the \u003cem>San Francisco Standard\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, indicating that she would eye both vacant and filled managerial positions for potential reductions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12041396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12041396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250128-SFImmigration-25-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a sanctuary city. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Their demands are reasonable as to have no layoffs in this budget, and I’m hopeful that this board and the budget committee are able to figure something out to make sure that jobs are saved,” Fielder said. “At the end of the day, it’s city services, and we’re also in general severely understaffed, so we can’t afford any cuts to public services.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement to KQED, Chan also expressed her solidarity with the protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest came ahead of the board’s first discussion of Lurie’s proposed budget for the next two fiscal years. The mayor has proposed deep cuts to the city’s workforce, with 1,400 positions eliminated across 40 departments, as part of his plan to close a $782 million shortfall exacerbated by federal and state funding cuts and expensive pushback against the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the positions are vacant, and only about 17 of the affected departments stand to lose roles that are currently filled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among those whose positions will be eliminated, some are retiring and won’t be replaced. But up to about 100 workers could be issued layoff notices — something the city hasn’t had to do for 15 years.[aside postID=news_12042755 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250609-LURIEPRESSER-04-BL-KQED.jpg']“A crisis of this magnitude means we cannot avoid painful decisions, and I’m prepared to make them,” Lurie said when he announced his plan in May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Board of Supervisors must pass a balanced budget before the new fiscal year begins in July. This week, supervisors will begin their amendment process and hold hearings with the city departments affected by proposed cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Francisco is steeling itself for a decline in federal funding under the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About $140 million in Federal Emergency Management Agency funding that the city used to shelter unhoused residents during the COVID-19 pandemic could be clawed back. President Trump has also threatened to pull money from sanctuary cities like San Francisco, and during a hearing in the city’s Budget and Appropriations Committee last week, Chan said officials are expecting cuts to Medicaid, which more than 17% of San Francisco residents rely on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan said during the budget hearing that the city has “no good options,” citing the Trump administration’s threats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/news/2025-05-20/balancing-san-franciscos-budget-part-2-revenues-and-expenditures\">received just under $1 billion in federal grants\u003c/a>, according to the Bay Area-based think tank SPUR. The city’s total spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year is $15.9 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044833\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044833\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250617_SFBUDGETPROTEST_GC-3-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250617_SFBUDGETPROTEST_GC-3-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250617_SFBUDGETPROTEST_GC-3-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250617_SFBUDGETPROTEST_GC-3-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Over a hundred SEIU 1021 and IFPTE Local 21 union workers conduct a sit-in, protesting against Mayor Lurie’s budget proposal that would call for hundreds of layoffs, during a Board of Supervisors meeting at City Hall on June 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is also facing potentially costly litigation from Airbnb and Google, which are trying to recoup $145 million they claim they were forced to overpay in city taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Labor groups have pushed back in force since Lurie made his proposal public, saying the city could have worked with their leaders to avoid layoffs and should instead be focused on retaining the tax revenue from Airbnb and Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the labor cuts, many grant-making departments are set to lose money, and about $100 million in grants and contracts have been sliced from the budget. The district attorney’s and public defender’s offices, along with public safety departments, would mostly maintain their funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor’s office itself will have an increased budget in the coming years, though a spokesperson told KQED that was due to previously negotiated wage increases, not new positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Mayor Lurie’s budget tackles the city’s historic budget deficit head-on, doubling down on the core services that are driving our recovery and bringing San Francisco back,” Lurie’s spokesperson Charles Lutvak said in a statement. “To do that amid serious uncertainty in the state and federal budgets, we can only spend the money we have.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Medical debt. Messy divorce. Wage theft.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When hard life moments meet \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>’s sky-high housing costs, homelessness can quickly become a reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That was the case for Nina, a mother who sought legal aid at the nonprofit Open Door Legal two years ago after facing domestic abuse by her husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it weren’t for them, realistically, my daughter and I would have probably been evicted, and we would have ended up living on the streets or in a shelter,” said Nina, who lives in the Sunset District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina, who did not use her full name for safety reasons, told KQED she was trying to get child support when her husband refused to pay “even a single penny” after he left her and her daughter, who has a disability. Legal aid helped her navigate restraining orders, threats of eviction, and obtain child support, keeping her and her daughter housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an effort to direct more dollars toward temporary shelter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is proposing to shift funding away from programs that help lower-income residents fight costly legal cases and other homelessness prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Tirtanadi stands outside City Hall in San Francisco on June 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nasicmento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This will affect residents all over the city. Homeowners who suffer wrongful foreclosures, domestic violence survivors and much more,” said Adrian Tirtanadi, executive director of Open Door Legal, which is slated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043582/he-says-legal-aid-fights-poverty-in-sf-now-hes-starting-a-hunger-strike\">to lose nearly half of its city-supported funding\u003c/a> under Lurie’s budget proposal. He’s since started a hunger strike to stress the urgency of the budget cuts. “It will especially, or maybe most profoundly, make the homeless crisis worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is facing a nearly $800 million budget deficit, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">Lurie has warned tough cuts lie ahead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is now proposing significant cuts across the board to balance the budget, which include eliminating about 1,400 mostly vacant positions and roughly $100 million in grants and contracts. The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing is slated to be hit hardest with cuts of about $83.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A crisis of this magnitude means we cannot avoid painful decisions, and I’m prepared to make them,” Lurie said in his budget announcement. “The budget I’m introducing today faces the $800 million deficit head-on.”[aside postID=news_12043568 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240130-HomelessCount-46-BL_qed.jpg']While balancing the budget, Lurie is also trying to fulfill an ambitious campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—\u003c/span> a goal still far from completion even as his first half-year approaches. On any given day, the online waitlist for shelter is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">hundreds of names long\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget, which must be finalized by the end of June, underscores an explicit shift toward investing in temporary shelter and transitional beds, rather than permanent supportive housing and prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Mayor’s proposed budget includes new investments to expand interim housing capacity to support immediate pathways from streets to stability for our most vulnerable residents,” the budget proposal reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reallocation comes about a year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">the U.S. Supreme Court ruled\u003c/a> that cities can cite and arrest unhoused people who refuse offers of shelter. But San Francisco doesn’t have enough shelter to offer many of the people living on sidewalks or in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line Fulton Street near San Francisco City Hall on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To change that, Lurie also wants to tap into roughly $90 million over the next three years in existing dollars in the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to tax the city’s wealthiest companies and fund homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was quickly challenged in court by groups such as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the California Business Properties Association and the California Business Roundtable. In 2020, the California Supreme Court allowed the measure to move forward and revenue was finally released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the majority of Proposition C dollars are allocated toward permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.[aside postID=news_12043516 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250520-BERKELEYRVBUYBACK-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“I will seek approval to unlock critical funds we need to build the types of interim housing and treatment that we need right now to get families and young people off the street and on the path to stability,” Lurie said in the budget address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’ll need support from the Board of Supervisors to shift funding away from prevention services to shelter, and it’s unclear if he’ll have enough votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, several supervisors, including progressive and moderate-leaning Democrats — such as Joel Engardio, Chyanne Chen, Bilal Mahmood, Stephen Sherrill and Jackie Fielder — spoke at a rally in support of funding permanent housing and legal aid programs covered by Proposition C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness experts at the rally cautioned that cutting prevention services, like legal aid and meal programs, will likely lead to a spike in homelessness, increasing the demand for shelter beds even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller, which looked at shelter data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A pink suitcase, shoes and a unicorn toy lie next to and on a blue bed.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child’s belongings sit next to a shelter bed set up in an auditorium at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. The school operates as one of San Francisco’s largest shelters for families experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit Dolores Street Community Services runs the shelter after hours and during the summer when school is not in session for San Francisco Unified School District students and their families. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Right now, a very small percentage of people can leave shelter to housing. We really need more housing exits,” said Christin Evans, a small-business owner in San Francisco and vice chair of the city’s Homeless Oversight Commission. “The population of people that are on the waitlist for family shelter has been growing substantially, and it’s outpacing the ability to provide adequate shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget invests $91.2 million over three years to open and operate about 630 new shelter beds, plus an additional $31.6 million to maintain the city’s current shelter system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for prevention, the mayor’s budget preserves existing funding for right-to-counsel programs aimed at tenants facing eviction and other housing stabilization programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was one of the first U.S. cities to pioneer a right-to-counsel program in 2019, after voters passed the No Eviction Without Representation Act that gave all residents facing eviction the right to legal defense.[aside postID=news_12042895 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250605-TREASUREISLANDJOBCORPS-29-BL-KQED.jpg']Between 2005 and 2019, San Francisco’s homeless population grew nearly 49%, according to federal data, fueled in part by soaring home prices. But since Proposition C and the right-to-counsel programs have launched, the number of people experiencing homelessness in the city has remained relatively flat, increasing slightly from 8,035 in 2019 to 8,323 in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Lurie plans to eliminate $4.2 million from other forms of legal aid. Groups like Legal Assistance to the Elderly, for example, are slated to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars from their operating budgets, at a time when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940807/older-adults-are-now-the-fastest-growing-unhoused-population-in-california\">seniors are the fastest-growing unhoused population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a holistic approach to providing legal services. You can’t compartmentalize them,” said Ora Prochovnick, director of litigation and policy at the Eviction Defense Collaborative, which is not losing funding under Lurie’s budget proposal. “Although we’re thrilled that tenant right-to-counsel was not cut, we see the harm in other types of legal services being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with preserving the right-to-counsel programs, advocates are pressing the mayor to allocate $66 million in Proposition C dollars into existing homelessness prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness is plaguing the mental and physical health of hundreds of children, surmounting the barriers they face into adulthood and often leading to adult homelessness,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the Coalition on Homelessness, in a prepared statement. “It is imperative that we act to preserve funds allocated to homeless families through Prop. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nina, who did not use her full name for safety reasons, told KQED she was trying to get child support when her husband refused to pay “even a single penny” after he left her and her daughter, who has a disability. Legal aid helped her navigate restraining orders, threats of eviction, and obtain child support, keeping her and her daughter housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in an effort to direct more dollars toward temporary shelter, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/daniel-lurie\">Mayor Daniel Lurie\u003c/a> is proposing to shift funding away from programs that help lower-income residents fight costly legal cases and other homelessness prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12043660\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12043660\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250610-LEGAL-AID-HUNGER-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adrian Tirtanadi stands outside City Hall in San Francisco on June 10, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nasicmento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This will affect residents all over the city. Homeowners who suffer wrongful foreclosures, domestic violence survivors and much more,” said Adrian Tirtanadi, executive director of Open Door Legal, which is slated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043582/he-says-legal-aid-fights-poverty-in-sf-now-hes-starting-a-hunger-strike\">to lose nearly half of its city-supported funding\u003c/a> under Lurie’s budget proposal. He’s since started a hunger strike to stress the urgency of the budget cuts. “It will especially, or maybe most profoundly, make the homeless crisis worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is facing a nearly $800 million budget deficit, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041773/san-francisco-mayor-daniel-lurie-plans-to-cut-1400-jobs-in-city-budget-proposal\">Lurie has warned tough cuts lie ahead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is now proposing significant cuts across the board to balance the budget, which include eliminating about 1,400 mostly vacant positions and roughly $100 million in grants and contracts. The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing is slated to be hit hardest with cuts of about $83.5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A crisis of this magnitude means we cannot avoid painful decisions, and I’m prepared to make them,” Lurie said in his budget announcement. “The budget I’m introducing today faces the $800 million deficit head-on.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While balancing the budget, Lurie is also trying to fulfill an ambitious campaign promise to build 1,500 shelter beds within his first six months in office \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">—\u003c/span> a goal still far from completion even as his first half-year approaches. On any given day, the online waitlist for shelter is \u003ca href=\"https://www.sf.gov/data--check-your-position-adult-shelter-waitlist\">hundreds of names long\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget, which must be finalized by the end of June, underscores an explicit shift toward investing in temporary shelter and transitional beds, rather than permanent supportive housing and prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Mayor’s proposed budget includes new investments to expand interim housing capacity to support immediate pathways from streets to stability for our most vulnerable residents,” the budget proposal reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reallocation comes about a year after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983492/how-a-pivotal-case-on-homelessness-could-redefine-policies-in-california-and-the-nation\">the U.S. Supreme Court ruled\u003c/a> that cities can cite and arrest unhoused people who refuse offers of shelter. But San Francisco doesn’t have enough shelter to offer many of the people living on sidewalks or in encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 8,300 people are experiencing homelessness in San Francisco, according to 2024 federal data. More than half are considered unsheltered, meaning they sleep outside in parks, sidewalks or cars, compared with the city’s inventory of 3,228 shelter beds, which are often full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11993518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11993518\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/011_KQED_SanFrancisco_TentEncampments_05052020_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tents line Fulton Street near San Francisco City Hall on April 5, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To change that, Lurie also wants to tap into roughly $90 million over the next three years in existing dollars in the Our City, Our Home fund, created after voters passed Proposition C in 2018 to tax the city’s wealthiest companies and fund homelessness services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measure was quickly challenged in court by groups such as the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, the California Business Properties Association and the California Business Roundtable. In 2020, the California Supreme Court allowed the measure to move forward and revenue was finally released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the majority of Proposition C dollars are allocated toward permanent supportive housing. About 25% is set aside for mental health services, 15% for prevention programs like civil legal aid, and around 10% for shelter and hygiene.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I will seek approval to unlock critical funds we need to build the types of interim housing and treatment that we need right now to get families and young people off the street and on the path to stability,” Lurie said in the budget address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’ll need support from the Board of Supervisors to shift funding away from prevention services to shelter, and it’s unclear if he’ll have enough votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, several supervisors, including progressive and moderate-leaning Democrats — such as Joel Engardio, Chyanne Chen, Bilal Mahmood, Stephen Sherrill and Jackie Fielder — spoke at a rally in support of funding permanent housing and legal aid programs covered by Proposition C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Homelessness experts at the rally cautioned that cutting prevention services, like legal aid and meal programs, will likely lead to a spike in homelessness, increasing the demand for shelter beds even more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just 13% of people staying in San Francisco shelters exited into permanent housing, according to a March 2025 report from the City Controller, which looked at shelter data from July 2022 to December 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11990403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11990403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A pink suitcase, shoes and a unicorn toy lie next to and on a blue bed.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240610-HomelessFamilies-23-BL_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A child’s belongings sit next to a shelter bed set up in an auditorium at Buena Vista Horace Mann Community School on June 10. The school operates as one of San Francisco’s largest shelters for families experiencing homelessness. The nonprofit Dolores Street Community Services runs the shelter after hours and during the summer when school is not in session for San Francisco Unified School District students and their families. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Right now, a very small percentage of people can leave shelter to housing. We really need more housing exits,” said Christin Evans, a small-business owner in San Francisco and vice chair of the city’s Homeless Oversight Commission. “The population of people that are on the waitlist for family shelter has been growing substantially, and it’s outpacing the ability to provide adequate shelter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s budget invests $91.2 million over three years to open and operate about 630 new shelter beds, plus an additional $31.6 million to maintain the city’s current shelter system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for prevention, the mayor’s budget preserves existing funding for right-to-counsel programs aimed at tenants facing eviction and other housing stabilization programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco was one of the first U.S. cities to pioneer a right-to-counsel program in 2019, after voters passed the No Eviction Without Representation Act that gave all residents facing eviction the right to legal defense.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Between 2005 and 2019, San Francisco’s homeless population grew nearly 49%, according to federal data, fueled in part by soaring home prices. But since Proposition C and the right-to-counsel programs have launched, the number of people experiencing homelessness in the city has remained relatively flat, increasing slightly from 8,035 in 2019 to 8,323 in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Lurie plans to eliminate $4.2 million from other forms of legal aid. Groups like Legal Assistance to the Elderly, for example, are slated to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars from their operating budgets, at a time when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11940807/older-adults-are-now-the-fastest-growing-unhoused-population-in-california\">seniors are the fastest-growing unhoused population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a holistic approach to providing legal services. You can’t compartmentalize them,” said Ora Prochovnick, director of litigation and policy at the Eviction Defense Collaborative, which is not losing funding under Lurie’s budget proposal. “Although we’re thrilled that tenant right-to-counsel was not cut, we see the harm in other types of legal services being cut.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with preserving the right-to-counsel programs, advocates are pressing the mayor to allocate $66 million in Proposition C dollars into existing homelessness prevention programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Homelessness is plaguing the mental and physical health of hundreds of children, surmounting the barriers they face into adulthood and often leading to adult homelessness,” said Jennifer Friedenbach, director of the Coalition on Homelessness, in a prepared statement. “It is imperative that we act to preserve funds allocated to homeless families through Prop. C.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As budget negotiations continue this month, Tirtanadi of Open Door Legal is preparing to lose about 44% of the center’s operating budget. He has started the process of laying off nearly 15 staff members, which he estimates will translate to serving roughly 900 fewer families annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that could mean turning away clients like Nina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What does the city expect us to do? We have ongoing cases, some of them have trials coming up,” Tirtanadi said. “It’s like being in the middle of surgery and putting down the tools and saying, ‘Ah, we ran out of money.’ You know? It’s just not ethical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 3:04 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a> city council just \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12038739/oakland-budget-keeps-fire-stations-closed-police-cuts-in-place-despite-new-sales-tax\">passed a spending plan\u003c/a> for the next two years, weeks ahead of the July 1 deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a process virtually unrecognizable from last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992752/oakland-budget-talks-drag-on-as-council-faces-huge-deficit-last-minute-changes\">amendment marathon\u003c/a>, the city’s budget team approved adjustments after just one meeting — with a goal of preserving the essential services Oaklanders want while addressing a major funding shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Janani Ramachandran, who co-chaired the budget committee, said the quick work was the result of newfound collaboration amongst city leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Things are looking up for Oakland,” she told KQED. “It’s not just bickering and fighting, there’s a sense of cohesion and shared core values on this council.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives conceded that the budget, which closes a $265 million deficit over the next two years, makes difficult cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In past budgets, the city of Oakland has unwisely tried to be all things to all people,” said Councilmember Zac Unger, who serves on the ad-hoc committee with Ramachandran, Rowena Brown and Charlene Wang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042381\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station 25 on Jan. 5, 2025, on Butters Drive in the East Oakland Hills.The amended budget from Oakland City Council cuts one police academy to keep fire stations open. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We simply don’t have the money to do that anymore,” Unger said, announcing the amendments Tuesday. “The first rule of getting yourself out of a hole is that you have to stop digging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amended budget passed with six yeses, with Carroll Fife excused and Noel Gallo casting the sole no vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran credited Councilmember Kevin Jenkins, who proposed the original budget while serving as interim mayor before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040935/barbara-lee-sworn-in-as-oaklands-mayor-says-today-marks-a-new-era\">Barbara Lee’s inauguration\u003c/a>, for giving her team a realistic and workable starting place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendments announced Tuesday removes the final fire station closure in the two-year budget, reverses employee layoffs and pads a reserve of $3 million to shield the city against likely state and federal funding cuts.\u003cbr>\n[aside postID=news_12042374 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-1020x680.jpg']“Despite a $265 million shortfall, we are proud to have come up with creative solutions to invest in the basics, invest in core and essential city services,” Ramachandran said Tuesday. “We want public safety. We want clean streets. We want economic revitalization. This is what our residents are telling us, and our budget amendments [do] exactly that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the biggest changes to the budget proposed last month by then-interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins is a reallocation of police funds to try to increase the number of sworn officers with less money, cutting one of six police academies planned for the next two years, while increasing the department’s budget for recruiting prospective officers and funding to expedite hearings for officers placed on administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is well below its baseline staffing level of 700 sworn officers, which was set by November’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/measures#measure-nn\">Measure NN\u003c/a>. If the department fails to meet that level, its ability to collect parcel tax and the parking tax revenue the following year is reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the department has about 675 officers, about 100 of which at any given time are on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city could struggle to even maintain current staffing levels in the coming years after canceling two training academies scheduled for 2025 due to budget cuts this spring. According to the police commission, OPD loses about five officers per month to attrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ramachandran said that even with one fewer academy class, Oakland can take a smarter approach to increasing police staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038002\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Oakland Police Department squad car in downtown Oakland on April 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The city of Oakland hasn’t been able to actually ever put on six academies in decades,” she said. “It’s a lofty goal, but at the end of the day, we want solutions that are actually going to work, not just throwing money at a problem and hope that magically increases the police number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last five years, the average graduating class size for OPD academies has been 22. Last May, the graduating academy had just 12 new recruits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, it’s natural that you’re going to have recruits dropping off, but to start at 22 instead of 42 and to end up with 12 [officers] for $4 million doesn’t make sense,” Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cutting one academy, the budget amendments would also add $220,000 to outreach efforts for police academies to help increase class sizes in a more cost-effective way, she said.[aside postID=news_12043062 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/026_KQEDScience_IntCommunitySchoolOakland_10202022_qed.jpg']The councilmembers believe OPD can also increase the number of officers in the field by speeding up Skelly hearings, which officers have to go through when placed on administrative leave before they can return to the job and to determine whether they will face disciplinary action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, there were 149 pending hearings and 42 officers on administrative leave, according to police commission reports. Eleven officers have been on administrative leave for between one and two years, which has cost the department nearly $3 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also now allocates $10 million more to the Fire Department’s budget to stop a rotating station brownout, which would have continued one of the most controversial budget cuts made in January after the city implemented a contingency budget to make up for unrealized revenue from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036060/oakland-pushes-coliseum-sale-next-year-delaying-funds-again\">stalled sale of the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in 20 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040592/all-oakland-fire-stations-open-ahead-of-wildfire-season-for-first-time-in-decades\">all 25 of the city’s fire stations have been open\u003c/a> for the last month. Before that, three stations, including two in the fire-prone Oakland Hills, had been shuttered throughout the year due to the budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the additional funding, the only necessary brownout would be for a three-month period this winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034725\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins addresses Oakland residents at an educational workshop about Oakland’s biennial budget process at the Main Library on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The amendments’ impact on labor partners is more of a mixed bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the councilmembers’ proposal would reverse eight layoffs and salary reductions planned across various departments, it also proposes budgeting lower starting salary steps for some city positions, predicted to save about $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran said it’s common for new workers to come into the city making more than the minimum required by Oakland’s deals with labor partners. The amendment requests roles be budgeted based on the salary scales agreed upon, and that new recruits to non-exempt roles not come in at a starting salary that doesn’t exceed a certain step three on the salary scale, Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also focuses on clean street efforts, sideshow prevention and building up economic zones and new businesses – interests shared by Lee, who took over the office shortly after Jenkins’ proposal was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jenkins said during his budget briefing last month that Lee had not had much input in the spending plan, Ramachandran said she has been supportive of the council throughout the amendment process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The overwhelming majority of her priorities overlap with ours, and she’s being creative on her own on how we can try to seek and obtain money from the outside, which is her area of expertise coming into this process,” said Ramachandran, who frequently sparred with former Mayor Sheng Thao before her recall in November. “This is a process of shared respect, which was glaringly absent under the Sheng Thao administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives conceded that the budget, which closes a $265 million deficit over the next two years, makes difficult cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In past budgets, the city of Oakland has unwisely tried to be all things to all people,” said Councilmember Zac Unger, who serves on the ad-hoc committee with Ramachandran, Rowena Brown and Charlene Wang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042381\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042381\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250105_OakFireClose_DMB_00055_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Fire Department Station 25 on Jan. 5, 2025, on Butters Drive in the East Oakland Hills.The amended budget from Oakland City Council cuts one police academy to keep fire stations open. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We simply don’t have the money to do that anymore,” Unger said, announcing the amendments Tuesday. “The first rule of getting yourself out of a hole is that you have to stop digging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amended budget passed with six yeses, with Carroll Fife excused and Noel Gallo casting the sole no vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran credited Councilmember Kevin Jenkins, who proposed the original budget while serving as interim mayor before \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040935/barbara-lee-sworn-in-as-oaklands-mayor-says-today-marks-a-new-era\">Barbara Lee’s inauguration\u003c/a>, for giving her team a realistic and workable starting place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amendments announced Tuesday removes the final fire station closure in the two-year budget, reverses employee layoffs and pads a reserve of $3 million to shield the city against likely state and federal funding cuts.\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Despite a $265 million shortfall, we are proud to have come up with creative solutions to invest in the basics, invest in core and essential city services,” Ramachandran said Tuesday. “We want public safety. We want clean streets. We want economic revitalization. This is what our residents are telling us, and our budget amendments [do] exactly that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the biggest changes to the budget proposed last month by then-interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins is a reallocation of police funds to try to increase the number of sworn officers with less money, cutting one of six police academies planned for the next two years, while increasing the department’s budget for recruiting prospective officers and funding to expedite hearings for officers placed on administrative leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland is well below its baseline staffing level of 700 sworn officers, which was set by November’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda/measures#measure-nn\">Measure NN\u003c/a>. If the department fails to meet that level, its ability to collect parcel tax and the parking tax revenue the following year is reduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, the department has about 675 officers, about 100 of which at any given time are on leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city could struggle to even maintain current staffing levels in the coming years after canceling two training academies scheduled for 2025 due to budget cuts this spring. According to the police commission, OPD loses about five officers per month to attrition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Ramachandran said that even with one fewer academy class, Oakland can take a smarter approach to increasing police staffing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12038002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12038002\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250428-OPD-FILE-MD-01-KQED-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Oakland Police Department squad car in downtown Oakland on April 28, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The city of Oakland hasn’t been able to actually ever put on six academies in decades,” she said. “It’s a lofty goal, but at the end of the day, we want solutions that are actually going to work, not just throwing money at a problem and hope that magically increases the police number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last five years, the average graduating class size for OPD academies has been 22. Last May, the graduating academy had just 12 new recruits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes, it’s natural that you’re going to have recruits dropping off, but to start at 22 instead of 42 and to end up with 12 [officers] for $4 million doesn’t make sense,” Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While cutting one academy, the budget amendments would also add $220,000 to outreach efforts for police academies to help increase class sizes in a more cost-effective way, she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The councilmembers believe OPD can also increase the number of officers in the field by speeding up Skelly hearings, which officers have to go through when placed on administrative leave before they can return to the job and to determine whether they will face disciplinary action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, there were 149 pending hearings and 42 officers on administrative leave, according to police commission reports. Eleven officers have been on administrative leave for between one and two years, which has cost the department nearly $3 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also now allocates $10 million more to the Fire Department’s budget to stop a rotating station brownout, which would have continued one of the most controversial budget cuts made in January after the city implemented a contingency budget to make up for unrealized revenue from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036060/oakland-pushes-coliseum-sale-next-year-delaying-funds-again\">stalled sale of the Oakland Coliseum\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time in 20 years, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12040592/all-oakland-fire-stations-open-ahead-of-wildfire-season-for-first-time-in-decades\">all 25 of the city’s fire stations have been open\u003c/a> for the last month. Before that, three stations, including two in the fire-prone Oakland Hills, had been shuttered throughout the year due to the budget cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the additional funding, the only necessary brownout would be for a three-month period this winter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034725\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034725\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/20250311_Oakland-Budget_DMB_00008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Interim Mayor Kevin Jenkins addresses Oakland residents at an educational workshop about Oakland’s biennial budget process at the Main Library on March 11, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The amendments’ impact on labor partners is more of a mixed bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the councilmembers’ proposal would reverse eight layoffs and salary reductions planned across various departments, it also proposes budgeting lower starting salary steps for some city positions, predicted to save about $5 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramachandran said it’s common for new workers to come into the city making more than the minimum required by Oakland’s deals with labor partners. The amendment requests roles be budgeted based on the salary scales agreed upon, and that new recruits to non-exempt roles not come in at a starting salary that doesn’t exceed a certain step three on the salary scale, Ramachandran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The budget also focuses on clean street efforts, sideshow prevention and building up economic zones and new businesses – interests shared by Lee, who took over the office shortly after Jenkins’ proposal was released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Jenkins said during his budget briefing last month that Lee had not had much input in the spending plan, Ramachandran said she has been supportive of the council throughout the amendment process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The overwhelming majority of her priorities overlap with ours, and she’s being creative on her own on how we can try to seek and obtain money from the outside, which is her area of expertise coming into this process,” said Ramachandran, who frequently sparred with former Mayor Sheng Thao before her recall in November. “This is a process of shared respect, which was glaringly absent under the Sheng Thao administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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